"What?"
Less than half a month after leaving Dew-Moistened Island, So Cheong-hwa received word that the Cheol family had suffered total annihilation. The reason he could learn of the news so quickly was his position as an Inspector of the Immortal Alliance.
Having been dispatched to oversee the Southern Region water territory, it was only natural that all sorts of information flowed to him.
"How could that be?"
His companions were equally bewildered. Had they not been lavishly hosted by the Cheol family only a short while ago? At that time, the Cheol family was perfectly fine, and their growing influence was visibly rising by the day.
And yet, such a family was wiped out overnight?
"There was an attack by demonic cultivators..."
The information they received laid out the entire affair in detail. It stated that several Foundation Establishment mountain sect cultivators bearing grudges against the Cheol family incited a mob to attack, and in the end, they were mutually destroyed with the Cheol family.
"Does... does that even make sense?"
Everyone felt a sense of strangeness. Well, cases of cultivators fighting and mutually annihilating weren't common, but they did happen occasionally. Since you can't be certain who is stronger or weaker before a clash, sometimes both sides misjudge each other's strength and end up in mutual ruin.